From a bit of retro charm to this dang fangled new gizmo
With new financial year upon us the suppliers are falling over themselves to give us demo machines. We've just seeded a new green so we thought we'd trail, read; loan for free, some cylinder mowers. A couple of fossil burners and this electric model. Its not a bad unit, the transport wheels are handy and run off an extension of the roller shaft with quick release hubs. You don't realize how noisy the ICE until you use one of these and the torque is incredible. To its detriment I feel. The drive is either on or off and if the roller isn't spinning up and bruising the grass its pulling your arms out of their sockets. It really needs a speed controller or a clutch of some sort.
On to another loan machine thats got a big tick of approval, a pedestrian top dresser.
With most of our tee's backed by trees or perched on slopes its difficult to top dress or dust them with the tow behind dresser so we do them by hand.
This one will turn on itself with a cast of about 3m, perfect! We'll also be trying it on our new green thats not ready to have a full size machine driven over it yet.
It can also be dialed down low enough to spread granular fert. We won't be buying one but I'll be making as much use of it whilst I can.